The following dialog, attracted me, in particular:
"I'd rather fail doing my own thing...
doing what I want to do...
than doing what somebody else wants me to do and succeeding."
My mind has lingered around a Bhagavad Gita (Hindu scripture) saying, while digesting the above dialog:
"3/35: S`reeyaan svadharmoo vigun`a: paradharmaat svanusht`hitaat
svadharmee nidhanam s`reeya: paradharmoo bhayaavaha"
GIST
Once own duty, though performed imperfectly is beneficial than the duty of others performed well. Losing one's life in performing duty is good. Duties of others can cause fear.
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Suzette's words in the film are better than the Gita prescript. Gita script relates to doing one's own duty as imposed by a person's caste and custom. The performance of such imposed duties do not lead to self-fulfillment or self-actualisation (See: Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs - the highest need is self-actualisation).
Indians can always say that Americans are self-centred and Indians are devoted to the society. Such argument is fake. Americans join armed forces quite voluntarily when America undertakes wars on alien lands, although the purpose of the war may be unconnected to the American cause. If India were to wage a war on alien lands to defend democracies or something else, no Indian will join (I believe). (Exception: India sent its forces to UN for peacekeeping purposes and some soldiers died).
Americans seem to enjoy greater individual freedom, particularly the youth, in deciding their future. Suzette, Hannah and Ginger represent the same spirit of freedom. Only Lavania is shown as faking, that too, quite unwillingly.
I rate the film very high.
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